GUI

[henry2004y]

Do we need it or not? What we may gain from it:

• faster exploration of data
  • choose file by clicking
  • display metadata in a window
  • preset plotting options
  • interactive 3D slices and views manipulation

Why don't we do it:

• limited experience in GUI design
• limited time
• hard to select a development platform
  • GTK+Glade? (I have actually tried this for Batsrus.jl, but gave up at some point due to some kind of limitations.)
  • Makie? It now has a bunch of widgets available, from which I have already tried the slider. Maybe this is better if we want to explore Makie more in-depth
  • Clm? A wrapper over a new C++ GUI library. Maintained mostly by Ginimuc himself.

[henry2004y]

Makie has an interesting range slide, which allows you to select a range of points in a given direction. This would be useful for quickly selecting a region.

[henry2004y]

Under the Genie framework, there is a UI development tool Stipple.jl. They also developed a GUI design interface. The only worry I have about this approach is that it seems to only support plotly.

[henry2004y]

Maybe TerminalMenus is a nice quick CLI tool to use?

I've added an experimental feature #75.

[henry2004y]

Qt5 wrapper in Julia: QML.jl

[henry2004y]

For demonstration purpose, or even my daily usage, Pluto notebooks seem to be a perfect option. I have started to create a notebook for demonstration.